biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1964– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in N England, UK. The daughter of an English father and French mother, her childhood was spent living between Barnsley in South Yorkshire, and France. She studied at Cambridge and became a teacher of French at Leeds Grammar School (1989–99). Her first successful novel, Chocolat (1999; filmed 2000), was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book Award. Further books include Blackberry Wine (2000), Five Quarters of the Orange (2001), and Holy Fools (2003). |
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